Deals & People

Zocks appoints AI education leader; Callodine Group hires head of intermediary distribution; NFP promotes Caleb Noel to chief financial officer;...

Tim McCusker will take the reins from current CEO Michael Manning in January 2027.

Creative Planning acquires Marshall Financial Group; Prudential Advisors welcomes Raymond James adviser team; South Carolina firm joins Osaic; and more.

Thoughts from Alvaro Galvis, with Merrill Lynch.

Among the new appointments joining the previously announced CEO and president are Mike Goss and Brad Long of Fiducient Advisors.

The deal also adds 350,000 savers to Vestwell’s platform.

DPL names chief distribution officer; Wealth Consulting Group names chief financial officer; Christopher Gandy elected president of NAIFA; and more.

Creative Planning adds Burt Wealth Advisors; Sequoia Financial Group expands in California with Sterling Financial Group; Waverly Advisors buys business...

Thoughts from Erik Daley, with Multnomah Group.

Wells Fargo adviser team joins Ameriprise Financial; 2 Chicago advisers join Cetera Financial; Cetera acquires 2 former LPL advisers; and...

Thoughts from Bill Sobers, with Bahbah Sobers Wealth Management, a UBS Financial Services company.

Mesirow appoints Nitay Laor as director of strategic growth and acquisitions; Wells Fargo taps Tim Froehlich as head of investment...

Thoughts from Douglas Stalter, with Oswald Financial.

LPL Financial takes minority ownership of Private Advisor Group; Beacon Pointe acquires Hemington Wealth Management; Mai acquires Court Place Advisors;...

The move brings in-house some investment management services previously outsourced to flexPATH.

FIM Partners to Acquire Loomis Sayles Global EM Equities TeamAsset manager FIM Partners has agreed to acquire the global emerging markets equities investment team...

Wealthspire to acquire RoundAngle Advisors; OneDigital acquires Signature Wealth Management Group; Arete Wealth partners with Pontera; and more.

The acquisition adds more than $4 billion in assets under management to United Capital, an affiliate of Creative Planning.

The 30-year industry veteran will lead Modern Wealth’s national mergers-and-acquisitions strategy.

Stockholders of the Charlotte, North Carolina-based insurance company will receive $70 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately...